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| Scottish LEADER newsletter |
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Twenty five Local Action Group (LAG) representatives from Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland and Scotland gathered in Ayrshire to develop their ideas for cooperating with each other. Some great ideas for joint projects on boat building and racing, heritage and coastal trails, textile tourism and industrial heritage were developed in a little over 24 hours. You can find out more in Jody Fleck's report from the event and a blog from Dr Therese Conway from the National Rural Network in Ireland and Eamon McMullan from the Northern Irish Rural Network. |
| Read the blog |
| News from Scottish Government |
| LARCs update | ||
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As the LARCs build nears completion it is the ideal time to review any desk instructions, guidance documents and tool tips that we currently have available and address any training requirements or resources that would help everyone involved in LEADER to successfully administer or apply to the Programme. Local Action Groups and Accountable Bodies now have access to a training version of LARCs to support this. There is a training thread started on Yammer and any suggestions or conversations on this would be welcomed. If you do not have access to Yammer you can send your suggestions to Leader.Queries@gov.scot. |
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| Go to the Yammer thread › |
| Communications and LARCs working groups | ||
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We would like to thank the volunteers from Local Action Groups who have stepped forward to sit on one of the two new working groups. The first meeting of the communications group will take place on 25 April and the LARCs group will met on 15 May. The Scottish Government LEADER Team and the Scottish Rural Network are organising and facilitating the first meetings, where we will enable the members of each group to explore and agree the purpose of the group and what work they could take forward to help improve the implementation of LEADER. You will no doubt hear from the groups themselves about their work in the months ahead. |
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You can contact the LEADER team by emailing Leader.Queries@gov.scot or calling 0131 244 9852. |
| News from Local Action Groups |
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| Ayrshire LEADER launch Crowdfunding website | ||
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Ayrshire LEADER have teamed up with Crowdfunder to launch a new online platform for groups, organisations and businesses to raise money, awareness and support using the power of the crowd. In addition, the LAG may also make financial pledges to projects of up to a maximum of £5,000, where they meet the Ayrshire LEADER programme criteria and have raised half of their online crowdfunding target. A total of £250,000 is available for this purpose. |
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| News from the Scottish Rural Network |
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| Aspiring Communities Fund - deadline approaching | ||
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The first funding round for the Scottish Government's Aspiring Communities Fund closes on 7 April 2017. The new fund is intended to enable community bodies and third sector organisations in Scotland's most deprived communities to develop and deliver long-term local solutions that address local priorities and needs and build on the assets of local communities. |
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| Last chance to take part in National Transport Strategy review survey | ||
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Ahead of the National Transport Strategy review, Transport Scotland are running an online survey to help shape the key themes of the review. The survey closes on 31 March 2017. |
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| News from Europe |
| Information from two LEADER events available | ||
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The European Network for Rural Development held two LEADER events in Brussels last month - a meeting of the LEADER Sub-group and a workshop on extending LEADER innovation. Information and presentations from both these events is now available on the ENRD website. |
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